Saturday, November 16, 2013

RALEIGH— Cornelius W.A. Hough captured the Carolina Cup in the 11th annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association state invitational cheerleading championships at the Raleigh Convention Center on Saturday. Cheer Ltd., Inc., the NCHSAA’s corporate partner that assists with the invitational championship, has established the Carolina Cup to recognize annually the top high school varsity cheerleading team in the state. It goes to the varsity-level team that earns the highest cumulative score in the whole competition, regardless of the division in which it competes. Hough scored 130.8 points, the highest score of the entire event, to win the large varsity division and grab the Carolina Cup. Middle Creek, Ledford, Raleigh Millbrook, Jamestown Ragsdale, Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons, North Gaston and Raleigh Sanderson are the previous winners of the Cup.Ledford earned the title in the super large varsity division. Waxhaw Marvin Ridge was the top squad in the medium varsity division and Asheville T.C. Roberson was the champion in the small varsity division.In other varsity results, the non tumble categories went to East Bend Forbush in the large, North Buncombe in the medium and Hampstead Topsail in the small.Davie took top honors in the small varsity co-ed division. Greensboro Dudley was first in the high school non-mount category. In junior varsity competition, Cary Panther Creek was the champion in the small junior varsity division while Raleigh Millbrook took the large junior varsity category and Eastern Guilford captured the junior varsity non-tumble division. A total of 140 teams registered to participate in the event.

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Good to see cheer leading recognized as a true sport with NCHSAA as more skilled and higher degree of difficult than any mainstream requiring incredible talent and dedication. Tumbling is pure gymastics that takes yrs to perfect.